Word: stunter
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...make cocktails out of his own blood? Did he truly associate animal glue, death and dung with sex? And how to square the youthful Dali--whom his fellow students at the Madrid Academy remembered as "bashful," "morbidly shy" and "literally sick with timidity"--with the self-corrupted publicity stunter, who would do almost anything for a headline...
...year was skipper of the carrier's Fighting Squadron One. This outfit became known as the High Hat Squadron, and astounded the country with virtuoso exhibitions of precision acrobatics. Radford was a superbly confident and skillful pilot by that time, but he was more than a mere stunter. He was interested in precision flying, precision machines, precision methods of making...
...most memorable thing about the show is that Stunter Paul Mantz, in an effort to publicize it, flew from coast to coast in 6 hr. 7 min. 5 sec., breaking a transcontinental record...
...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...
...more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit for solo pursuit planes, the German stunter nonchalantly described it to New York Times Correspondent Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley, and the monoplane whirled around. The tail...